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In America today the intense and controversial debate over the censorship of porgraphy continues to call into question the values of a modern, democratic culture. This ground-breaking collection of ten critical essays traces the history and various uses of porgraphy in early modern Europe, offering the historical perspective crucial to understanding current issues of artistic censorship. The essays, by historians and literary theorists, examine how porgraphy emerged between 1500 and 1800 as a literary practice and a category of kwledge intimately linked to the formative moments of Western modernity and the democratization of culture. They reveal that the first modern writers and engravers of porgraphy were part of the demimonde of heretics, freethinkers, and libertines who constituted the dark underside of the Renaissance, the Scientific Revolution, the Enlightenment, and the French Revolution. From the beginning, early modern European porgraphy used the shock of sex to test the boundaries and regulation of decent and obscene behavior and expression in the public and private spheres, criticizing and even subverting religious and political authorities as well social and sexual rms. Contents: Introduction, Lynn Hunt. Humanism, Politics, and Porgraphy in Renaissance Italy, Paula Findlen. The Politics of Porgraphy: L'Ecole des filles, Joan Dejean. Sometimes a Sceptre is only a Sceptre: Porgraphy and Politics in Restoration England, Rachel Weil. The Materialist World of Porgraphy, Margaret C. Jacob. Truth and the Obscene Word in Eighteenth-Century French Porgraphy, Lucienne Frappier-Mazur. The Porgraphic Whore: Prostitution in French Porgraphy from Margot to Juliette, Kathryn Norberg. Erotic Fantasy and the Libertine Dispensation in Eighteenth-Century England, Randolph Trumbach. Politics and Porgraphy in the Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Dutch Republic, Wijnand W. Mijnhardt. Porgraphy and the French Revolution, Lynn Hunt.

Author Biography

Lynn Hunt is the editor of The New Cultural History and the author of The Family Romance of the French Revolution.